Chapter Thirty-three: Aunty Flo Pays A Visit
The three houses had taken eleven days to complete.
Lin Wan had not expected that. She had mentally prepared herself for weeks of slow, frustrating labour, of cracking test blocks and wrong ratios and four males looking at her like she had asked them to move the mountain itself, she had never had to build anything before, this was all thanks to watching videos online.
Instead, with four strong sets of hands and Qin Mo's particular brand of focused precision driving the pace, the cob walls had risen faster than she had ever seen them go up back in any demonstration she had watched online.
One house for her and Wang. One for Keal. One for Da Jun.
Qin Mo had looked at the third house when it was finished, turned to Lin Wan and said simply, "I don't need one," and walked back into his wooden house without further explanation.
Lin Wan had stared at his back for a moment.
'Weiwei,' she had thought. 'Is he serious?'
